Herbert König wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> 
> JC> it fails.  Am I missing something?
> 
> no you do it exactly right as you use the native mysql driver which is
> - quite old
> - gpl which may or may not be a problem
> - only works if you
>   -open a connection -fire a query -get the result
>   -close the connection!!  -repeat ad infinitum.
> 
> Take a look at SqueakDBX which (according to their Benchmarks) is
> faster and blocks the image much less.

Another alternative is ODBC (http://www.squeaksource.com/ODBC.html).
It works very well for us in production.

Cheers,
   - Andreas